On 12 Oct 2021, at 19:32, Sara Allison <sara.all...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Michel,
I just followed the DCM course on EDX and also read a book on it. It was said that the estimated parameters cannot be compared directly to check the importance but I do not know why.
Let's assume that there are two attributes with the same unit like Travel Time and Waiting Time. If the estimated parameter of Travel Time is bigger than Waiting Time, doesn't that mean that Travel Time is more important than Waiting Time?
If not, why?
I also followed a thread in this forum about choice-based conjoint analysis and parthworth utilities. As far as I understood, the idea is to include both the estimated parameters and the attribute levels to calculate the relative importance.
I would like to know why attribute levels should be considered when calculating the attribute relative importance?
Best,Sara.--
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On 13 Oct 2021, at 21:59, Sara Allison <sara.all...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Michel. There is a special case here. I have two monetary attributes with the same unit including parking cost and toll cost. The estimated coefficient of parking cost is bigger than the coefficient of toll cost. According to your response, we can say parking cost is more importance than toll cost given that they have the same unit/scale , right?
The thing is that when I calculate the partworth utilities and the relative importance, toll cost becomes more important than parking cost probably due to the higher attribute level range of toll cost.
I wonder what I should conclude here? One method suggests that parking cost is more important and the other one results in an inverse outcome. I want to generalise the results and make a conclusion. Which conclusion/method is more reliable or generalisable in this case?
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